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TFCC: Additional Lesions

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We now know that there are additional lesions.

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Let me show you examples of these.

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This is a volar capsular detachment

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where the disc attaches to the capsule,

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and this is what it looks like.

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This taken from the literature showing you the edema

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between the disc and the joint capsule.

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This is a similar lesion,

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this one taken from an exhibit at the RSNA.

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This is a dorsal capsular detachment.

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You can see the edema in this area between the disc

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and the dorsal capsule.

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This is my cadaver.

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It doesn't quite fit the bill,

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but at least we have a lesion close to that region.

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There is another lesion

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that's called a dorsal carpal detachment.

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Here's what it looks like in the coronal plane.

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The, uh, failure right at this triquetral attachment,

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also known as thei kawa lesion.

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There are two types of bucket handle tears.

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One of them shown here is an intradiscal, uh,

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bucket handle tear right in the disc.

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Here's an example of what that might look like.

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The second is more complicated.

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That's taken from a rad source, uh, article or,

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and you can see it's between the disc

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and the radi nerve ligament.

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In this case, the volar radi nerve ligament.

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So here's the tear or separation. Here's the disc.

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Here's the volar radi nerve ligament. Same thing here.

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Here's the tear between the disc

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and the volar radial in their ligament.

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There are two types of flap tears that have been described.

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One of 'em is a distal flap tear shown here,

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where a portion of the TFC is displaced into the pre

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reset, and in this case also

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with the dorsal radial nerve ligament.

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So here's the abnormal tissue. That's the pre recess.

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Here is the abnormal tissue in the pre recess.

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And then the other one, which I have encountered in several

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examples, is proximal displacement

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of a flap of the triangular fibrocartilage.

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So you will see it in the distal radio on the joint, either

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as a linear or as a kind of a oval,

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uh, area of low signal intensity.

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Faculty

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Donald Resnick, MD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiology

University of California, San Diego

Tags

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI

Hand & Wrist